Professorstudies electronic voting

Aug. 21, 2005

Written by

Mike McWilliams
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Long before the debacle in Florida that marked the 2000 presidential election, Douglas Jones knew there were problems with voting security in the United States.

"By 1997, I was starting to see serious problems," said Jones, an associate professor in the University of Iowa's department of computer science. "By the spring of 2000, it was time to sit down and write a public statement on how bad things were getting."

Then election 2000 came and passed, and Jones said anyone and everyone looking for people who studied election security problems came calling. Jones said he was asked to write ...